About the competition

The Building Services World Cup is a prestigious annual international Football tournament for Building Services Engineering & Built Environment professionals.

Engineering Sport Ltd has been set up to manage the event with the help of Liverpool City Council, Liverpool County FA, CIBSE and all other partners.

The tournament is registered with the English Football Association.

The 2009 inaugural competition will be held in Liverpool, UK, between Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st June 2009.

Teams registration ends on the 29th May 2009 or once the maximum team tournament team numbers has been reached.

The tournament draw will take place on the 17th June 2009. Further details will be announced shortly.

Competition matches will take place at the University of Liverpool and Liverpool FA venues, on quality competition standard grass pitches. All games will be 11 aside. It is anticipated that game duration will be 60 minutes over two halves. Semi finals and finals may be over 80 minutes. Matches to be played from Saturday 20th June to Sunday 21st June 2009.

The competition will be promoted across all REHVA/ASHRAE regions.

The competition is ‘Inclusive’ and open to all associated industry businesses and employees.

The competitions vision is to raise the profile of engineering, to celebrate our industry achievements through sport and 1st class sporting facilities, create a worldwide networking opportunity, develop team building and leadership development and generate industry marketing opportunities.

The tournament will support The Everyman Campaign. £100.00 from each team registration will be donated to Everyman.

Tournament Awards;

CIBSE Trophy.
Awarded to the 2009 Building Services Engineering World Cup Winners.

Fair play award.
The tournament ‘Fair Play’ Award is given to the team with the best record of fair play according to a points system and criteria established by the FIFA Committee for Fair Play and Social Responsibility.

‘Golden Boot’ award.
The Golden Boot award is given to the player who scores the most goals in tournament.

‘Manager’ of the Tournament award.
Awarded to the team manager at the discretion of the sponsor, who demonstrates outstanding team success.